Re: Please check site - Commercial

Hi, and thank-you for your helpful suggestions!  As I hinted at, it's a
little difficult for me to do what I think is best in this case.  My client
is hard to please and has his own ideas - set in stone!  He is a retired
professor of design, and since I am still a year away from university, my
ideas don't have much sway with him.  Which is fine, because the main
objective is to please the customer right?  He actually designs his own
pages in a different program, and then gets me to do the HTML.  I did switch
everything around, and had the plaid border on the left with a white
background, but he is convinced that white is too stark on the first page.
So really there wasn't much point in me submitting the page to the critique
list.  I thought he might listen to other people's suggestions, but his only
comment was "What do they know, anyway?".  It didn't help that the first
critique was a bit of a flame...bad impression to begin with, oops =).
However, I'm still working on things, hopefully it will improve a little.
Somehow I don't think I'll include this one in my "portfolio" if I ever need
to make one up! =p

Thanks again,

Amy Fuller

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Greenfield <grandane(at)fox.nstn.ca>
To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:48 AM
Subject: Please check site - Commercial


>Re: http://www.cyg.net/~bandman
>
>Hi there,
>
>Visited the above site and it loaded quickly.
>
>Main Page - This page looks kind of muddled, tartan background stops any
>text from
>showing up, it competes too strongly with the yellow and green - the
>logo (face) it clashes with the red tartan .
>
>The little drummer annimation would be better if on white bg like your
>second page on pricing - that's a nice little annimation!
>
>For the record, having all the same type, layout and color bg are
>considered to make a
>more cohesive site and holds the viewer in - so to speak.
>
>If I may make a suggestion think it would be better to perhaps have both
>your pages white same as  the second page' pricing.' If you really want
>to use tartan, why not a narrow strip down the left margin on your white
>pages or something like that (grin).
>
>Think your main page should be just about _you_ whereas greater
>percentage of space is
>taken up with someone else's links which means they will be leaving you
>pretty quickly!!
>
>With a little bit of 'tweaking' you should have an interesting site -
>change it around a bit and let us have a look at it again.
>
>28.8
>640x480
>NN404
>
>Pat Greenfield
>grandane(at)fox.nstn.
>
>
>
>

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